They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too
young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything,
but
All night
She wants the Young American
Young American, Young American, she
wants the Young American
All right
She wants the young American
Scanning life through the picture window
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford
Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes
gone?"
All night
She wants the Young American
Young American, Young American,
she wants the Young American
All right
She wants the young American
All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom
floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"
All night
He wants the Young American
Young American, Young American, he
wants the Young American
All right
He wants the Young American
Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?
Have you been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression?
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-Sheilas
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have
All night
You want the Young American
Young American, Young American, you
want the Young American
All right
You want the Young American
You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a
Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul
train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands
ache
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the
jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without
judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they
die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make
me
break down and cry?
All night
I want the Young American
Young American, Young American, I want
the Young American
All right
I want the Young American.
Win
Me, I hope that I'm crazy
I feel you driving and you're only the wheel
Slow down, let someone love you
Ohh, I've never touched you since I started
to feel
If there's nothing to hide me
Then you've never seen me hanging naked
and wired
Somebody lied, but I say it's hip
To be alive
Now your smile is spreading thin
Seems you're trying not to lose
Since I'm not supposed to grin
All you've got to do is win
Me, I'm fresh on your pages
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud
Life lies dumb on its heroes
Wear your wound with honor, make
someone proud
Someone like you should not be allowed
To start any fires
Now your smile is spreading thin
Seems you're trying not to lose
Since I'm not supposed to grin
All you've got to do is win
All you've got to do is win
When your smile is spreading thin
Since you're trying not to lose
Since I'm not supposed to grin
All you've got to do is win
Fascination
Got to use her
Every time I feel fascination
I just can't stand still, I've got to use her
Every time I think of what you pulled me
through, dear
Fascination moves sweeping near me
Still I take ya
Fascination
Fascination
Takes a part of me
Can a heart-beat
Live in a fever?
Fascination
Oh yeah
Takes a part of me
I can't help it
Got to use her
Fascination comes around
Your soul is calling
Like when I'm walking
Seems that everywhere I turn
I hope you're waiting for me
I know that people think
That I'm a little crazy
Ohh, better sex is fun
I think I like fascination
Still, tick
Fascination
Fascination
Takes a part of me
Can a heart-beat
Live in a fever?
Fascination
Oh yeah
Takes a part of me
I can't help it
Got to use her
Fascination comes around
Right
Taking it all the right way
Keeping it in the back
Taking it all the right way
Never no turning back
Never need, no
Never no turning back
Flying just a sweet place
Coming inside and safe
Flying just a sweet place
Never been known to fail
Never been, no
Never been known to fail
Wishing you,
wishing that sometimes
Doing it, doing it right, 'til one time
Gets you when you're down
Ahhh, sometimes, doing
Wishing sometimes
Up there, up there
Oh, my darling
Ah, my darling, ah why?
Gimme, gimme, up there, gimme, doing
Taking with me
Loving it, doing it 'til one time
Gimme
Giving it
Taking it all the right way
Keeping it in the back
Taking it all the right way
Never no turning back
Never need, no
Never no turning back
Flying just a sweet place
Coming inside and safe
Flying just a sweet place
Never been known to fail
Never been, no
Never been known to fail
Taking it all the right way
Keeping it in the back
Taking it all the right way
Never no turning back
Never need, no
Never no turning back
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Let the lies go
Let...
He's everybody's token, on everybody's wall
Blessing all the papers, thanking one and
all
Hugging all the babies, kissing all the
ladies
Knowing all that you think about
from writing on the wall
He's so divine, his soul shines
Breaks the night, sleep tight
His ever loving face smiles on the whole
human race
He says "I'm somebody"
He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on
your heart
He says "Don't hurry, baby
Somebody up there likes me"
He's the savage son of the TV tube
Planets wrote the day was due
All the wisest men around
Predicted that a man was found
Who looked a lot like you and me, yeah
Everyone with sense could see
Nothing left his eye unmoved, he
Had the plan, he had to use
He's so divine, his soul shines
Breaks the night, sleep tight
His ever loving face smiles on the whole
human race
He says "I'm somebody"
He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on
your heart
He says "Don't hurry, baby
Somebody up there likes me"
Somebody plays my song in tune
Makes me, makes me, makes me
stronger for you, babe
Was a way when we were young, that
Any man was judged by what he'd done
But now you pick them on the screen
(what they look like)
Where they've been
He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on
your heart
He says "Don't hurry, baby
Somebody up there likes me"
Leaders come, they hate all
The people know
That given time, the leaders go
Tell me, can they hold you under their spell
Can they walk and hold you as well as a
Smile like Valentino?
Could he sell you anything?
Keep your eyes on your soul, keep your
hand on your heart
He says "Don't hurry, baby
Somebody up there likes me"
Yeah, can't remember peace so well
Oh, space to ramble, space to boogie
Soul shine
So divine
Somebody
Across The Universe
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away
Across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my openned mind,
Possesing and caressing me
[Chorus 1]
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
[chorus 1]
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on
Across the universe
Thoughts meander like the restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
[chorus 1]
[chorus 1]
Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears,
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on and on
Across the universe
[chorus 1]
[chorus 1]
[chorus 1]
[chorus 2]
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing's gonna
Nothing's gonna change my world
[chorus 2]
[chorus 3]
Nothing's gonna change it
Nothing's gonna change it
Hey
[chorus 3]
[chorus 3]
Nothing's gonna change my world
[chorus 3]
Nothing's gonna change my world
Can You Hear Me
Once we were lovers, can they understand?
Closer than others I was your, I was your
man
Don't talk of heartaches, ohh, I remember
them all
When I'm checking you out one day, to see
if I'm
Faking it all
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me inside?
Show your love, love
Take it in right
Take it in right
There's been many others so many times
Sixty new cities, an' what do I, what do I
What do I find?
I want love so badly, I want you most of all
You know, it's harder to take it from anyone
It's harder to fall
Can you hear me call ya?
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me inside?
Show your love, love
Take it in right
Take it in right
Well, can you hear me?
Can you feel me inside
Show your love, show your sweet, sweet
love
Show me your love
Take it in right
Take it in right, yeah
Take it in right to your love life, baby
Take it in right To your love life
Take it in right, take it in right,
right to your love life
Take it in right, ah
Take it in, take it in right
Right down, right down
Mmmm, why don't you take it?
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me?
Can you? Take it in right
Right down, right down
Can you take it? Feel me?
Down, to right down
To your heart
To your heart
Take it down, take it down
Fame
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are
hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nien! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
Fame
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really, really?
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame
What's your name?
Feeling so gay, feeling gay
Bonus tracks:
Who Can I Be Now?
Everybody's raised in blindness
Everybody knows it's true
Everybody feels that everything is real
Anybody's point of view
Nobody can break their bondage
Everyone can feel their chains
But even in my life I knew you found your sight
And nothing would be quite the same
Please help me
Who can I be now? You found me
Who can I be? Fell apart, you found me
Now can I be now? You found me
Now can I be real?
Can I be real? (somebody real)
Hmmm, if it's all a vast creation
Putting on a face that's new
Someone has to see, a role for him and me
Someone might as well be you
Up in heaven, any angel
Writes a special game to play
Oh-oh, could we, could we make a star to snatch their angels, boy
Played your role for every day
Please help me
Who can I be now? You found me
Who can I be? Fell apart, you found me
Now can I be now? You found me
Now can I be real? Can I be?
Who can I be now? You found me
Who can I be? Fell upon, you found me
Now can I be now? You found me
Now can I, can I be real? Can I be real?
Can I be real? Can I be?
(Who) can I be?
Yeah, yeah
(Now) Yeah, can I be (now)?
You found me
(Now) can I be free?
Can I...
It's Gonna Be Me
Hey Jack I better shake it off. put her out of my head
Thinking I balled just another young girl last night
Oh brother! I left a woman in that morning bed
Been on that trip so many times
Good god! was it really yesterday?
I've tried so many, many, many, many, many, many ways
I've lied and taken off into the day
Leaving another girl to weep over the breakfast tray
Loved her before I knew her name, hit me Jack, 'cause I'm
Gonna love her way
CHORUS
(Come back, my babe)
Come back, my babe
Be holy again, I gave her
(I gave her) Ooh, maybe, maybe
(Ooh maybe) Gotta give her, ooh baby, baby (Ooh baby)
That kind of love
Can only destroy, I gave her
(I gave her) Ooh maybe, maybe
(Ooh maybe) Get it down if I'm gonna be her baby, 'cause
(Ooh baby)
Gonna be me
(It's gonna be me)
There was no rein to check me
When all of those little things walked on by
Oh! But I couldn't really stammer out a word
When that angel stuck in my mind
Oooooh, looking for love won't hold me back
(No!) I'm gonna love her way
CHORUS
Just playing that latest record
Waiting for the telephone to ring
Wiped out and bitter with a bag clutched in her hand
All the cars sound like they're pulling in the drive
Hmmm, no, no, no
I see her now
A little tear running down her cheek
Lost, let down
People looking for me
I want to race down her street
And knock hard, hard, hard on the door until
Until she breaks down into my arms like a
Treasured toy and I feel her pain
I'll be so strong, again and again
Come back my baby
I'll hold you again, I'll take you
(I'll take you) Ooh, baby, baby, baby
(Ooh baby) We're gonna have, ooh baby, baby (Ooh baby)
My kind of love
Can only bring you joy, I'm gonna
(I'm gonna) Yeah, baby
(Ooh baby) Yeah, I'll give you baby, baby (Ooh baby)
'Cause it's gonna be me (It's gonna be me)
Hmmmm
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
(Dancing) I'm having so much love
(Dancing) Too bad my back had gone
(Dancing) Boogie down with daddy now
I'd give my house in the country
If you slept, it's so funky
(Music) I'm dancing in the street
(Oooh, music) I've torn my shoes from my feet
(Romancing) It's got me dirty and sweet
It's got you reeling and rocking
Won't you let me slam my thing in
(Falling) I think it's all I can do
(Falling) Just got me feeling it too
(Ooh, falling) Give a little, take a little, give a little back
Jumping John, the great goose has gone
Got a lion on my hand, a Charlie on my back
(John) I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) Ooh, but she moves me
(Don't get me wrong) I-I-I-I-I
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)
(Dancing) Have you heard the news?
(Dancing) President has got the blues
(Dancing) I tell you confidently
If he gives it to you, he'd better take it from me
(Sad sad) I'll pick up your bones
(Sad sad) Leave the numbers alone
(Sad sad) Get off your telephone
Looking people in the eye, tell them "my, oh, my"
Let your backbone slide while you whistle and cry
(John)
(She turns me on)
(She turns me on) love, love, love, we get
(Don't get me wrong) hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh
(John) I-I-I-I'm only dancing
(She turns me on)
I-I-I'm only dancing
(She turns me on) I've lost my feet
(Don't get me wrong) I'm off on my way
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh) Please dance with me
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh) Please dance with me
(I'm only dancing, ooh-ooh)
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Dancing) I'm only
(Woo, woo, woo)
Can't sing nor hear
I've lost my fear
Cha-Charlie, a dance on
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Woo, woo, woo)
He-he-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, 'cause
(Woo, woo, woo)
You got white light
You got black light
I've got white light
Lay a dance on (woo, woo, woo)
I'm only
I'm only
I'm only
(Woo, woo, woo)
I've got
I've got
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Woo, woo, woo)
(Dancing) Hey
(Dancing) Hey
(Dancing) Hey
(Woo, woo, woo)
Take a dance on me (Dancing)
Lay a dance on me (Dancing)
Lay a dance on me (Dancing)
Hey (Woo, woo, woo)
(Dancing, dancing, dancing, woo, woo, woo)
Gotta give it up (Dancing)
Gotta give it up (Dancing)
Gotta give it up (Dancing)
(Woo, woo, woo)
He-hey (Dancing)
He-hey (Dancing)
(Dancing)
(Woo, woo, woo)
Liking it fine
Making it mine
Liking it fine
Making it mine
Liking it fine
Making it
(I'm only dancing, mmm-hmm)
(I'm only dancing, dancing, I'm only dancing, mmm-hmm)
(I'm only dancing, dancing, I'm only dancing, mmm-hmm)
(I'm only dancing, dancing, I'm only dancing, mmm-hmm)
(I'm only dancing, hey I'm dancing, hey! I'm dancing, mmm-hmm)
Yes I am (I'm only dancing, hey I'm dancing, hey, dancing, mmm-hmm)
Ooh (I'm only dancing, ooh, I'm only dancing, I'm only dancing, mmm-hmm)